%% ID: 13204917 Updated: 2022-01-28 %% ![](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) # About Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise/Articles/Why Some People Find It So Hard to Manage Their Time When Working From Home – And What to Do About It]] Author: [[Become an]] Category: #articles Number of Highlights: ==12== Last Highlighted: *2021-12-14* Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/13204917 Source URL: https://theconversation.com/why-some-people-find-it-so-hard-to-manage-their-time-when-working-from-home-and-what-to-do-about-it-82461 # Highlights people find it difficult to manage their time. Working from home in isolation can also prevent people from engaging in the daily interpersonal relationships that working life can offer – and which can help creativity and improve our mental wellbeing. ^278319367 --- In an ordinary workplace, we are helped in our time management by the fact that our access to many temptations is limited. ^278319368 --- We don’t have to constantly monitor ourselves as our colleagues or bosses are likely to be doing so. ^278319369 --- when working from home, temptations abound which can eat up our time ^278319370 --- the temptations to use their time “badly”, particularly online, can be very seductive. ^278319371 --- At work, the pressures of time management mostly come from other people ^278319372 --- At home, we are both the “boss” and the “worker”, so the conflict, now internal, can be much harder to manage ^278319373 --- us for not doing things as we should, or ramping up our anxiety about our own abilities to complete the task at hand. ^278319374 --- No substitute for the real thing ^278319375 --- So if you find working from home challenging, don’t worry, many people do and it is not because you are in some way especially flawed. ^278319376 --- Take seriously the need to have proper interpersonal relationships with colleagues as well as friends, other than online ^278319377 --- We are not designed to manage our emotional lives in isolation and need others to relate with – in ways over and above those of friendship and intimacy. ^278319378